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Lining the floor of the birdcage
Living trees, grown for years then cut down, rendered into pulp, flattened, covered in ink and sold as newspapers. 12 hours later all that time effort and material is superfluous to requirements, waste, landfill fodder. Perhaps good for soaking up puppy wee or lining the bottom of a bird-cage. Maybe good for wrapping chips in (that's fries to the US readers). WHat a completely outdated, useless, wastefull drain on this planet's resources the newspaper industry represents. From "The Tinyvill Clarion" to "The Telegraph", every paper offers a tiny, biased subset of the news arising every second. Totally redundant. No wonder they're complaining. ZDnet must have almost sprung a leak with excitement at the possibility of pressing such a non-story into another Microsoft supported blow at Google.

If ZDnet were honest they would simply publish headlines like

"Microsoft "terrified" of Google - FUD campaign is helping ZDnet bottom line"

or

"Microsoft "terrified" of GPL 3.0 - top rates paid for Google and Apple FUD stories"

Respect. ZDnet. Incompatible.
Posted by: whisperycat   Posted on: 05/23/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Newspapers want Google News' quarter  Loverock Davidson | 05/23/07
Maybe better, the news papers could give Google back pay for all of the  DonnieBoy | 05/23/07
LOL!  Loverock Davidson | 05/23/07
The world is changing, and, being in business a long time and not being  DonnieBoy | 05/23/07
Ignorant statement  K B | 05/23/07
Dinasaurs still roaming the earth  supercharlie | 05/23/07
Good point, and Google makes it SUPER simple for them to tell Google they  DonnieBoy | 05/23/07
Is paper dying, or is it growing....  el1jones | 05/23/07
bloggers vs journalists  conspicuouschick | 05/23/07
Try the other way around, buddy  ejhonda | 05/23/07
Google stopped indexing their pages  frgough | 05/23/07
A better question is, how much traffic would the newspapers get if they  DonnieBoy | 05/23/07
With newspaper readership dropping, Sam Zell wants it to go lower?  B.O.F.H. | 05/23/07
subscriptions...  conspicuouschick | 05/23/07
RE: subscriptions  K B | 05/23/07
Regarding advertising  B.O.F.H. | 05/23/07
Lining the floor of the birdcage  whisperycat | 05/23/07
Anything of value?  shraven | 05/23/07
How much of the content on the news sites is AP?  B.O.F.H. | 05/23/07
Card Catalogs  mighetto | 05/23/07
Things learned as witness for AFP vs Google  Phil Nesbitt | 05/23/07
Still, any way you slice it, this is fair sampling, AND, Google makes if  DonnieBoy | 05/23/07
Are the publications using anything to hinder the crawlers?  B.O.F.H. | 05/23/07

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